The Unretirees: Matt & Dawn You Tube Channel. Welcome to The Unretirees – Redefining Life & Work After 50! Traditional retirement isn’t for everyone. We chose a different path—one that gives us location, time, financial, and purpose freedom after 50. Welcome to The Unretirees, where we share how to create a flexible income, live abroad, and design a life that truly works for you. Our journey started with moving to Portugal, and while we still share insights on life here, our focus has expanded. We help empty-nesters and those aged 50-65 earn remotely, travel more, and create a fulfilling lifestyle. If you’re ready to break free from traditional retirement and build income on your terms, join us and start your Unretiree journey!

Retirement Travelers: John and Bev’s You Tube Channel. We’re John & Bev, a senior travel couple on the adventure of our lives around the world! We’re full-time, active travelers, and our passion is sharing our knowledge about travel and encouraging others to consider a different path on their retirement journey. Overall, we want you to live your best life and enjoy everything the world has to offer. In 2020 we began our YouTube retirement channel, sold our home, and gave away all our stuff. We’ve been to over 100 countries, and we’ve traveled to every state in the US and visited all the National Parks in the lower 48. Our dream is to see as much of the world as possible during our go-go years of retirement. And, man, are we trying!

Amelia And JP Abroad: Amelia and JP’s You Tube Channel. We left the U.S. in 2017, lived in Ecuador for 6 years, and now we’re slow traveling the world. 24 countries and counting.

Warren and Julie Travel: Warren and Julie’s You Tube Channel. We are Warren & Julie, early retirement travelers who have embraced the full-time nomadic expat lifestyle since March 2020. We immerse ourselves in each country for 1 to 3 months, punctuating our stay with side trips and thrilling adventures. We love diving deep into the culture, meeting the locals, and exploring the cost of living while also indulging in popular tourist attractions. Our travels come with detailed cost breakdowns to help you understand the true expenses of an expat’s full-time journey. And yes, our two dogs, Katie and Arya, tag along, adding an extra layer of adventure!

Seeking Paradise Bugs: Dianne and Guillermo’s You Tube Channel. Early retirees on a quest to find our forever home! We are Dianne, Guillermo and Che from the USA along with our Mexican souvenir, Buddy. We decided to retire early and embark on a worldwide quest to find our paradise forever home! We’ve created our checklist with 10 essential requirements that we use to rate each city we visit. We’re documenting our experiences and sharing all the invaluable insights we discover along the way. We moved from the USA to Guadalajara, Mexico in 2018 with Che and lived there for 3 years. Buddy joined our family in 2020 and in 2021 we moved to our new home base…Lisbon, Portugal. Join us on our mission as we explore and rate amazing cities around the globe to find the perfect place that captures our hearts and makes us say, “This is home!”

Rick Steves’ Europe: Rick Steve’s You Tube Channel. Rick Steves advocates smart, affordable, perspective-broadening travel. As host and writer of the popular public television series “Rick Steves’ Europe,” and best-selling author of over 50 European travel books, he encourages Americans to travel as “temporary locals.” He helps American travelers connect much more intimately and authentically with Europe — and Europeans — for a fraction of what mainstream tourists pay.

Nomad Life. Full-Time Travel (EatWalkLearn): Chris and Steve’s You Tube Channel. We are an early-retired couple traveling full-time, eating plant-based foods, hiking the world’s trails, and sharing our nomad lifestyle with you. Be sure to watch our weekly Sunday episode. We share our nomad life, our travel updates, and our favorite hikes, repositioning cruises and adventures as we live our life fully, one location at a time. We might even include our adventures in housesitting, sustainable travel, and off-the-beaten path locations. Join us on our slowmad, slow travel, traveling adventure.

Finding Gina Marie – Travel the World: Judy and Kevin’s Tube Channel We’re Judy and Kevin, full-time travelers who left behind corporate careers, sold nearly everything, and hit the road in 2022 with just carry-ons and a backpack each. We share not just where we go, but how travel changes us—the surprises, challenges, and deeper purpose we’re discovering—and what freedom, belonging and joy really mean. If you’re dreaming about your next chapter or wondering what’s possible, you’re in the right place. What you’ll find here: 👉 What it’s really like to live across cultures, climates, and continents, not just visit them 💰 Transparent cost breakdowns in every destination 🏛️ Local stories and history that bring places alive 👋 What it means to feel at home anywhere—even without a home base Why Finding Gina Marie? In 2021 Judy reunited with her birth family at 55 years old. The name her Italian birth mother gave her, Gina Marie, and her emotional story sparked this channel and this new way of life. Wander more. Worry less. Bring a passport. ❤️

Spain Revealed: James and Yoly’s You Tube Channel. Want to experience Spain like a local? You’ve come to the right place! We’re James and Yoly (a Kiwi and a Spaniard) and our mission is to help you experience this wonderful country deeply. Travel guides, tapas, wine, tips and insights. Subscribe to see our latest videos. Venga, let’s go! (These guys have several Videos on the breakdown of costs to live in Spain full time)

Grounded Life Retirement Travel: Rob and Allie’s Tube Channel Grounded Life Retirement Travel helps people make great decisions about credit cards, points, travel and retirement.

The TRICARE Guy: John’s You Tube Channel You can use your TRICARE benefits worldwide. It is our mission to explain how. We take you step by step for all plans and users. We’ll explain: – How to find a doctor anywhere around the world – What is covered – How to pay, and how to submit a claim to get your money back FAST. Whether you are Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, Reservist, retiree — we are here for you. We even cover Medicare & TFL. Subscribe & learn!

Some websites and apps we use

Monday.com Project Management Software that we use to keep track of the huge amount of details of our trip. The Retirement Travelers have an excellent You Tube video that shows you how you can use this software to organize your extensive travel details: How to Use Monday.com Software

Google Flights Provides more inforation about flights, including seat pitch for every flight. You can search by regions and see prices overlayed on a map. Here is a You Tube video to show you how to get started: How to Use Google Flights

Flights From FlightsFrom.com is a useful website for finding airline routes and flight schedules globally. The idea is being able to explore destination opportunities through non-stop flights from a specific airport.

Cruise Plum Use this website to see every possible cruise in the world. This is how we found our repositioning cruise from Europe to South America in Nov 2025. It is a very powerful search engine that does not come with instructions so I suggest you watch this video first to help you get going.

Rome 2 Rio Use this to see all travel options between any two places on earth – trains, planes, automobiles, ferries, buses, etc. Note that it is not necessarily 100% complete but it is a fast way to get started when you are not even sure what the possibilities could be. Here is a You Tube video to get you started: Rome2Rio Review

Google Maps Besides the normal features you are probably used to using on Google Maps, it can also give you specific public transportation directions in many places on earth – such as train or bus station location and number and the required connection numbers if any. And you can download offline maps for navigating in places where you might not have an internet signal.

Numbeo Numbeo is the world’s largest cost of living database and a crowdsourced global resource for quality of life data. It provides insights into cost of living, housing price indicators, perceived crime rates, healthcare quality, transport quality, and various other key statistics.

Trusted Housesitters Discover free & unique homestays around the world, in exchange for caring for adorable pets. We have set up a profile on this site and have successfully completed several house/pet sits. It has a pretty intensive setup process including background checks and you have to build a compelling profile, which takes work. This has been a great part of our lodging strategy while we travel.

Google Translate An app on your phone that you can use to translate almost any language in the world to or from your own language. Here is a video to show you how to use it: How to Set up and use Google Translate

NLM Consultancy – Montenegro. We highly recommend this company if you are interested in purchasing real estate in Montenegro. Liezl and Nicole showed Adam and I what our money could buy for a residential property in Montenegro and how they could manage it for us if desired. Their website is very descriptive about their services. You can contact them directly at info@nlmconsultancy.me or through their website.